Sean WIlliams - Oak Park to Meadow View
10 February - 9 March
Artist Talk
Thursday 7 March, 6 for 6:30pm start.
All welcome. Booking not required but encouraged as places are limited. Call 0114 2852665 to reserve a seat.
PLEASE NOTE: the talk will take place upstairs in the long gallery, so we ask that anyone with mobility issues gets in touch to see how we may be able to help.
‘Over the last few years I have produced a collection of paintings based on a walk around a fictional English town. The walk takes place on the edges of the town, highlighting the places that, while containing both urban and rural elements, are neither quite one thing nor the other. There are signs of life, of building work and farm animals, but no people. It includes views of parks, those essential oases of relative calm within the bustling conurbation, and farms – buildings which mark where the town ends and the countryside begins. There are also views of the curiously manufactured, artificial terrain of golf courses. The walk occurs across the year, encompassing all weathers.
The paintings themselves are a painstaking meditation on the subject, constructed by thousands of tiny dots of paint. The intention of this adapted pointillist technique is to create a surface that shimmers slightly. It also allows me to introduce a number of colours, in the manner of Seurat. From a distance they can be relatively photo-realistic but close inspection reveals the technique and subtle shifts in colour.' Sean WIlliams 2024